Wanting to raise money to maintain two modernist landmarks—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House ... and designers donated works of art to a project and book called Modern Views ...

project architect with Thomas Phifer and Partners; Ron Johnson, a structural engineer at SOM; and Edward Windhorst, Mies van der Rohe’s biographer.

So why was Mies van der Rohe, world-famous architect ... Stunningly, Mies said yes. The bowling alley project never got far, but Cantor had other ideas. Suburban living and the automobile were the ...

Phifer was already working on an IU campus building project, the Ferguson International Center, when his firm was approached about reviving the Mies design. (Van der Rohe’s grandson Dirk Lohan ...

After the project petered out ... Architecture + Design Mies van der Rohe Building. Among his works, Mies’ first high-rise building in Chicago’s Hyde Park, the 22-story Promontory Apartments ...

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House ... but carried his bitterness about the project to his grave. After commissioning several technical surveys, the trust has posted a feasibility study by ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture ... They launched a six-month rehab project, designed by New York-based James Mohn, before moving in. Renovations included re ...

With Dirk Denison Architects and Gilbane Building Company, the Illinois Institute of Technology has recently completed a $70 million housing project that has restored three Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ...

“I never create an image when I want to build a house.“ Thus Mies van der Rohe stated during interview with the Bauwelt magazine in 1964. He did, however, produce a wealth of collages and montages.

LOOK up—and anywhere in the U.S. the building, if it is relatively new, and certainly if it is of steel, will bear traces of Mies van der Rohe. In a time of confusion, he was a purist.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a pioneering architect of the 20th Century, known for his role in developing the modernist architectural movement. His philosophy of "less is more ...